Abstract
A beam propagating in a planar waveguide exhibits the characteristics of both a fundamental soliton (little change in waist of a 5-m beam; diffraction is compensated by self-focusing nonlinear refraction) and a second-order soliton (10-m beam focuses to 3 m with side peaks). These one-dimensional spatial solitons are quite stable; bifurcations of transverse solitary waves are not seen, in sharp contrast with the case for two transverse dimensions. Plasma-theory planar-wave beam-propagation computations agree well with the data and resemble Kerr-medium solitons quite closely.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 920-923 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
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